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selvage

[sel-vij] / ˈsɛl vɪdʒ /






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“It was an important time in his life,” said Douglas Selvage, a historian who works at the main Berlin archive of the Stasi, the onetime East German secret police.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2023

“A lot of legends,” Selvage said, “have grown out of that time.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2023

Tournament sponsor Eugene Selvage, the proud brewer of Lucky Lager beer, took a liking to the Archers.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 1, 2019

Selvage denim, Barbour jacket, Red Wing boots: it is a look straight out of A Continuous Lean, the blog Mr. Williams started in 2007 that is devoted to all things heritage-chic.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2012

It served him so well that for three years in a row, he was lowest-scoring amateur in the city's Lucky International Open and soon had himself a sponsor, Eugene Selvage, a retired brewery president.

From Time Magazine Archive




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